#volus

[milkywayes]

BABY ALIENS! three of them. messy because I'm strapped for time but I needed to participate. yes that's a volus and I love her.

[owlgodarchives]

Individual Alien Babies 🩵 (2/2)

[lumen-fox]

Ben, and how I think he'd look as a bunch of Mass Effect aliens.

Specifically the main races from the first game. Which happens to make a full set of 10, enough for a playlist.

I've been writing a Ben 10/Mass Effect crossover fic for a while now, which is why I designed most of these. I also just think they're neat

[continuous-spec]

I am a biotic god!

Inkeffect Day 1 & 2: Volus/Biotics

[devilwizard]

What (organic) nonhuman Mass Effect species would you be?

Asari

Salarian

Turian

Volus

Elcor

Hanar

Drell

Batarian

Krogan

Quarian

Yahg

Rachni

Voting ended onMay 22

[edenprime]

It’s usually mentioned by fans how unfair it is that the volus in particular are not council members, considering that they were on citadel space before the turians, contribute hugely in economic matters, in fact invented the credit system, and even have built “their own” dreadnought, with turian help.

The thing is that it’s not going to happen. Ever. It’d be ridiculous of the other members to allow it. They are a client race of the turians, not an independent nation. It’s even in their name: they are the volus protectorate. Any representation they might have is just another voice of the hierarchy. It’d be double representation for the turians.

The citadel council and its members are pretty much a parallel to the UN and its security council. 1) in the UN, colonised nations and territories don’t have full-fledged membership and representation, 2) the security council wouldn’t allow any new members at all, but if it hypothetically did, it would not be a colony of another country that already has membership and 3) no technicality matters when the volus are not NPS, that is, are not part of the “nuclear weapons”/dreadnought club.

Oh, the volus have the one, they made it with the turians. Leaving aside that other independent nations of Earth nowadays have nuclear weapons without a spot on the security council… Well, the volus dreadnought is pretty much under turian control: depending on the terms of any treaties between Palaven and Irune, which we don’t know about, the hierarchy might have more or less control over the protectorate’s state decisions, but that ship would not have been built without the turian’s stamp of approval. It’s basically an extension of the turian military (and wouldn’t that be clever as a way to extend their prowess - allowing their client races to arm up to a point, in order to get around the treaty of Farixen in a way that wouldn’t officially allow other members to up their own numbers).

[c-rowlesdraws]

The only cure for being stuck at the airport is sketching a comic about my Mass Effect OCs. This is the day when Siwa (the volus) and Kesh (the quarian) first met, while Siwa was working a shift at her dad’s exosuit repair shop on the Citadel.

bonus business card closeup:

[ywtothefeast]